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The first part is presented well and makes sense, but falls apart the moment fossil fuels are brought up. Fossil fuels were never the cheapest method of producing power - they were just the method with the hardest to measure expenses, and because they are difficult to measure, we ignored them, allowed companies to benefit from their usage, and even now continue to ignore their effects - even though we now know fossil fuels are the single most expensive form of power production possible through a combination of direct worker death, pollution's effects on the natural environment as well as leading to increases in mortality and morbidity, and carbon dioxide's direct effect on climate stability leading to decreases in food production, increases in disaster frequency and magnitude, requiring more power and effort to try to do anything about. It's literally the worst thing we could do, and we're STILL DOING IT.